As part of the Poetry Month celebration hosted by the Forward, we asked a number of poets about their practice. Today we’re featuring the highlights of the responses received. These are the highlights ...

When Joaquín Zihuatanejo was a child, his uncle Silastino asked, “Mijo, what do you want to be when you grow up?” “A poet,” Zihuatanejo replied. “A poet,” Tío Silastino repeated as if he were tasting ...

As a young mother, poet Kim Garcia stayed in a Benedictine Monastery, where she was exposed to the peaceful solitude and firm routine of monastic life. She lived the way the monks did—simply: rising ...

KEARNEY — In honor of poetry month, Brad Aaron Modlin, Reynolds Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, answers five questions about poetry: Modlin: If you want to ...